I've just been informed by the folks over at Comcast (or, more precisely, I've been stalked by their PR peeps) that for every person who signs up for paperless billing between now and April 25, they will donate $1 to the Arbor Day Foundation.

Not-so-coincidentally, the date corresponds with the celebration of -- gasp! -- Arbor Day.

The collaboration between the communication behemoth that makes money as we spend more time inside and the a nonprofit that encourages us to love, preserve and protect trees seems a little, uh, surprising.

But in all seriousness, there are 1.3 million Comcast subscribers in Michigan. For the Huron-Manistee National Forests, where our responsible bill-paying will turn into new growth, that could add up to a substantive addition.